ScHoolboy Q has announced his upcoming album in five years titled ‘Blue Lips,’ which will be released on March 1st. Today, he’s returned with his latest track, “Yeern 101,” which was produced by Cardo and comes with a music video directed by Q and James Edward.

You’d be forgiven for assuming ScHoolboy Q was ready to kick back and relax. His fifth studio album, 2019’s CrasH Talk—the third consecutive LP of his to debut in the top three on the Billboard 200—capped a decade of dominance for the South Central-bred rapper, one that saw him rack up Gold and Platinum plaques, five Grammy nominations, and a reputation as one of the most inventive and influential stylists in Los Angeles and in hip-hop writ large. But something was just a little bit off. “I didn’t feel like my normal self anymore,” he says of the moment just before the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’d done so much in the industry, accomplished so much, checked off all these boxes. I’d won, but I wasn’t really satisfied.” Blue Lips, Q’s rabidly anticipated sixth album, not only gets to the bottom of that uncomfortable feeling but probes beyond it, and allows him to redefine success on your own terms.

On one level, Q says, Blue Lips is about speechlessness—it was made in a period of self-reflection that at first yielded more questions than answers. There are also the connotations of the color itself: the sadness it can imply, but also the openness of blue skies. But more than anything, the album, Q’s most focused and sonically adventurous to date, is about perseverance in the face of adversity. “It was hard some days” to keep going, he says, “and I gave up at times. But it would just be one day, or two days. Then I’d get back to it.”

Check out ‘Yeern 101’ below and watch this space for the brand new Album!